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Posted in News on Oct 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Paddington rail crash memorial
Survivors and families remember the crash at the scene
Survivors of the Paddington rail crash and relatives of those who died stood in silence at the scene of the disaster exactly 10 years after it happened.
They gathered by a memorial stone in Ladbroke Grove, west London, at 0809 BST - the time when [...]
Posted in News on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Bere Ferrers station
The soldiers mistook Bere Ferrers station for Exeter
A World War I train accident in which 10 soldiers from New Zealand were killed is to be remembered in a service in a Devon village.
The men died on 24 September 1917 when they mistakenly got off their train at Bere Ferrers thinking they had arrived [...]
Posted in News on Sep 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Stuart Parker September 21st, 2009 Rail Travel
Over the course of the next 20 years, Network Rail plans are transforming the rails north of England. Network Rail now claims that these rails have a very bright future. The train operators Northern and First TransPennine Express have been working with Network Rail on a new strategy for [...]
Posted in News on Sep 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Fast rail links in the North would ease motorway traffic, the report says
Plans to double the number of fast train journeys in northern England have been unveiled by Network Rail.
The rail infrastructure company sets out its plan for the next 20 years in a manifesto entitled “a bright future for rail in the North”.
It said [...]
Posted in News on Sep 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Eurostar train
Fast rail links in the North would ease motorway traffic, the report says
Plans to double the number of fast train journeys in northern England have been unveiled by Network Rail.
The rail infrastructure company sets out its plan for the next 20 years in a manifesto entitled “a bright future for rail in the North”.
It [...]
Posted in News on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
A National Express-operated East Coast line train
The East Coast rail service suffered falling revenues and made losses
Unions are being urged to back a motion to keep in public hands a rail franchise taken over by the government after the operator made big losses.
Rail union Aslef has started a campaign to keep the East Coast Main [...]
Posted in News on Sep 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Rail passengers are facing fresh chaos on the National Express East Anglia network after more strikes were announced by train drivers.
The drivers’ union Aslef said its members would walk out for a week from 21 September in a long-running row over pay and conditions.
The union said it failed to accept a deal aimed at ending [...]